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Hexxus' smog form
Hexxus is the main antagonist of FernGully: The Last Rainforest. In the film, Hexxus was trapped in a tree for 10,000 years by Magi Lune for trying to destroy Ferngully and the world. Bowser made it one of his missions to try and free the dark god in his efforts to conquer the worlds. However, he was defeated by the combined efforts of Pooh and Pals and their fairy friends. He is the archenemy of Magi Lune and Crysta.
History[]
Origin[]
Hexxus first appeared on Earth in ancient times when the balance of nature shifted. He caused a nearby mountain known as Mt. Warning to erupt like a volcano, and from there, rose out of the Earth and rained down his poison, destroying much in his wake and killing countless living creatures everywhere in FernGully, including humans, who fled in fear, never to return. He was finally defeated by the elderly and wise fairy priestess named Magi Lune, and was imprisoned inside an enchanted baobab tree, which he remained trapped in for hundreds, if not thousands or possibly even millions of years.
FernGully: The Last Rainforest[]
While painting red "X" marks on trees, marking them for cutting, the movie's male protagonist named Zak Young comes across the tree that Hexxus was imprisoned in, he finds it creepy, much like the entity it contains. While he is looking at the tree, Zak is bugged by a fly, and he ends up marking the tree while he was trying to hit it with his aerosol can. That evening, the mobile lumbermill known as "The Leveler", driven by Zak's two superiors named Tony and Ralph, cuts down the tree.
As the cutting begins, the Leveler shakes violently, likely due to Hexxus' supernatural presence, but the lumberjacks ignore the signs and cut it down anyway. The tree is processed and reduced to sheets of wood by the Leveler, releasing Hexxus in a slimy form.
| " | Mmm. Delicious. A first class smoke. Mother's milk. What is this delightful thing? And how did I get out of that tree? Of course! Humans. What wonderful creatures. So clever, so helpful. I must take this human thing to... FernGully! | " |
| ~ Hexxus upon being freed. |
Chuckling maliciously, he almost immediately begins absorbing energy from the Leveler. And by the next day, he has regained enough strength to quickly move around and coherently speak. While wondering how he escaped, Hexxus quickly realizes that it is the work of humans. Determined to get revenge upon the fairies of FernGully for imprisoning him and seeing the most useful potential of the human machine, Hexxus initially decides to take control of it and use it to exact his sinister plan.
Under the outspoken and vocal guise of their boss, Hexxus occasionally manipulates the lumberjacks into tearing down the rainforest in the direction of FernGully by the next morning, thereby destroying the very fabric of their world. He then assumes his ghostly main form, singing the song "Toxic Love", before going to the Leveler's roof to oversee progress as he laughs maniacally. Sometime later, upon reaching FernGully after having successfully destroyed much of the rainforest, Hexxus reveals himself.
With Magi Lune gone (having sacrificed herself to give her power to all of the other fairies), it is up to Crysta and the other fairies to defeat him once and for all. He and the Leveler then chase the fairies and drive them into their home tree, despite Crysta's efforts to stop his advance. Zak (knowing the fairies cannot stop the Leveler) has Batty Koda take him to the machine's cab, from which he can stop it. However, Batty gets carried away and flies right up to Hexxus, who laughs and violently swipes at them, sending debris raining down onto Batty, who drops Zak onto the windshield as a result.
As Zak frantically tries to get the lumberjacks' attention, Hexxus immediately scares them off and takes control of the machine himself. As he proceeds to the fairies' home tree, he closes off the Leveler's cab to keep out intruders, but Zak still manages to get inside with Pips' help. Just as Hexxus is about to kill off all of the fairies, Zak turns off the Leveler, causing Hexxus to lose the energy that he was gaining from it and disappear. However, he once again emerges moments later, this time in the form of a giant, demonic, fire-breathing skeletal beast made of oil.
Crysta remembers a bit of advice that Magi gave her before her death, so she takes a seed and flies up to Hexxus. Unfortunately, he devours her as he laughs evilly, to everyone's horror. However, as he prepares to destroy FernGully for good, he begins sprouting branches like a tree. Annoyed, he rips off the sprouts, but the emerging new tree continues to grow. Pips (realizing what is happening) leads the fairies into helping the new tree grow, within moments, Hexxus and the Leveler itself are overrun. Hexxus can only watch in terror as he is sealed within the closing roots, imprisoning him presumably once and for all, so that he may never harm FernGully again.
In the end after his defeat, Crysta and Batty are now revealed to be alive, while Zak (knowing human development can still threaten FernGully) returns home with Tony and Ralph with a new environmentalist mindset.
Trivia[]
- He is voiced by the legendary Tim Curry, who also voices Maestro Forte in Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas, Drake in The Pebble and the Penguin, Pretorius in The Mask: The Animated Series, Professor Calamitous in The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, Taurus Bulba in Darkwing Duck, Darth Sidious in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Mouse King in Barbie in the Nutcracker, Skullmaster in Mighty Max, and El Malefico in Mucha Lucha!: The Return of El Malefico and portrayed Long John Smith in Muppet Treasure Island.
- Hexxus will become the main antagonist of Ash Ketchum Goes to FernGully: The Last Rainforest.
- Hexxus will become the main antagonist of Sora Goes to FernGully: The Last Rainforest.
- Hexxus will become the main antagonist of Aqua, Terra, and Ventus Go to FernGully: The Last Rainforest.
- Hexxus will become the main antagonist of Thomas and Twilight Sparkle Go to FernGully: The Last Rainforest.
- Hexxus will become the main antagonist of Danny Goes to FernGully: The Last Rainforest.
- Hexxus will make his first guest appearance in a Winnie the Pooh crossover to get his revenge on Pooh, Ash, Thomas and their friends in Pooh's Adventures of the Elm-Chanted Forest. After the events of that film, he will become a new member of the Masters of Evil to get his revenge on Pooh and his friends.
- Hexxus will get his revenge on Pooh and his friends again in Pooh's Adventures of Arrow, Winnie the Pooh Meets the Flash (2014), Pooh's Adventures Armada: Hunt for the Chaos Emeralds and more.
- Hexxus will make his first guest appearance in a Land Before Time crossover in Littlefoot's Adventures of the Transformers: The Movie.
- Hexxus will become the main antagonist of Doctor Aaron's Journeys to FernGully: The Last Rainforest.
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